Improvement in ruffling and cording attachments for sewing-machines



UNITED STATES MILTON J. PALMER, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUFFLING AND CURDING ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING-MACHINES. i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,145, dated August 15, 1871.

To all uhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON J. PALMER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Attachment 5 and do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention relates to the novel construction and use of a sewing` machine attachment to be used on sewing-machines, and it consists of an interchangeable set of separate devices to be used alternately, according to the kinds of work to be done, in connection with the bed-plate or base of the attachment, said devices to be used to accomplish the following kinds of work, to wit: to rufiie, to baste, to hem, to bind,

and, lastly, to prepare and sew in a cord-welt by once passing through the machine.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved sewingmachine attachment in complete workin g order.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through line m i ,Fig 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same through line az y. Fig. 4 is avertical section, also, through line z z, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are detached views of Fig. 4. Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 represent different views ofthe binder attachment separated from, as also the mode of attaching it to the bedplate. Figs. 12,13, and 14 show the same in reference to the hemmer, Figs. 15, 16, and 17, the same in reference to one kind, and Figs. 18 and 19 in reference to another kind of corder.

A is the bed-plate, which is to be used interchangeablyin connection with the several devices hereinafter described for ruing, basting, hemming, coi-ding, and binding. E is a hinged pressure-plate hinged to the bed-plate A at the rear end, at the point L, and having a recess, o, shown in Fig. 7, to receive a hook, o', turned up out of the bed-plate to hold the pressure-plate to the work. B, Fig. 4, shows the lower finger of the attachment in section, and is so constructed as to be readily removed from the bed-plate A, and

t is attached to the double tongue C O', (as seen in Fig. 5,) made of sheet metal. D is the upper nger, made of elastic material, curved at the rear end and fastened to the bed-plate, as seen in Fig. 4, its extremity, T, being made to rise and fall by means of the thumb-screw f. These constitute the main body of the attachment, which is to be held down upon the table of the sewingmachine by means of a set-screw through the slotted opening vl in the bed-plate A, Fig. 1, and the needle of the machine plies up and down at the point h.

The several devices for binding are represented in Fig. 7 as connected with the attachment and held to the work by the thumb-screw f, and the two flanges H and H', and placed between the bed-plate A and the upper finger D, Fig. 8. This binder consists of three parts, a, b, and c, side views of which are seen in Figs. 9, 10, and 11, and edge views in Fig. 8, this being a section of Fig. 7 through the line z z. The upper piece a is cut out of sheet metal in the form 'indicated in Fig. 9, and lis curved into the form shown by a, Fig. 8. The middle piece b is cut out of a similar sheet, Fig. 10, and curved to the form shown by b, Fig. 8, and having two slots, one for the thumb-screw f and the other for the set-screwf", the former passing down through the upper finger andY screwed into the bed-plate, and the latter through the parts a and b of the binder, and screwed into the lower piece c at the point r, passing through the slots g and g. The bottom piece c has a lefthand curve, d, from that of the upper piece a, Figs. 9 and 11. P, Fig. 8, represents the cloth to be bound, c the binding, and t' the position of of the needle or stitch.

The hemmer consists of a piece of sheet metal, H, Fig. 14, curved into the form shown by the several curves a, nf, and n", Fig. 13, and to be placed in the position shown in Figs. 12 and 13, between the upper finger D and the bed-plate A, and held there by the thumb-screwf, the binder having been removed for this purpose. P represents the cloth to be hemmed, the edge of which passes around in the curved channel of the hemmer. i is the position of the needle and stitch, passing three times through the cloth P, as it is drawn along through the hemmer in the path of the needle in the direction of the arrow. The curved cross-head n n n is slightly tapering toward the needle e'. There are two kinds of corders,-m and w, shown in Figs. 15 to 19.

The corderm consist-s of a piece of sheet inet-al eut to the form shown in Fig. 1G, and having a cylinder, IL', at the front edge through which the cord h passes, whence it turns at right angles and passes to the rear edge, thence through a small eye through the corner t, where it sets off a little to the left, and then continues its course past the needle z', Fig. 15. Fig. 17 shows an end View of the corder as viewed in the direction of the arrows, and Fig. 15 shows the mode of attaching it to the bed-plate A, and also the direction of the cord h and position of the needle i.

1u, Fig. 1S, is another style of eerder to be used in the same place and for the same purpose as the former. It consists of a T-shaped iiat piece of metal with a hole, e e', ruiming edgewise diagonally through it, and through which the cord h passes on its way to the needle i. 1 is the hole to receive the thumb-screwj', when placed in its position in the place ofthe corder on. Fig. 19 is a sectional view cutting the line z in Fig. 1S. In order to make this corder apply to the different kinds of sewing-machines, it may be made in some cases L-shaped instead or' T-shaped, the straight edge at the left hand'being used to guide and direct the cloth to the needle.

It is evident from a glance at these two forms of corders m a-nd w that the main thing to be accomplished is to so construct them as to be able to pay out the cord h from the outlet ot` any channel or tube running in any of the indicated directions in Fig. 18, terminating at or near the corner e, three of which are shown in Fig. 18.

rIhe operation of my sewing-machine attachment is as follows: When it is desirable to rufiie, I have only to throw the pressln'e-plateIlover to the left, in the position it occupies in Fig. 1, and it is never used for any other kind of work except for ruiiiin g, and at all other times it is to be thrown over to the right, as represented in Figs. 7 and 12. The rui-lling with this attachment is accomplished by passing one piece of cloth below the pressure-plate E, where it is fed along by thei'eeder of the sewing-machine 5 the other piece of cloth passes over the pressureplate, and its feed is retarded by the foot-rest, and is drawn along by the stitch just made, and this causes the upper piece to be sewed in rufiies or gathers to the lower piece.

Basting is done by simply throwing the press' ure-plate E back out of the way, as represented in Fig. 7, when the double edges of the cloth may be run through and kept elose against the flangeguides H Il H, turned up out of projections from the end ofthe bed-plate, causing the cloth to be run through with even edges and stitched equidistant from the edge, thus dispensing' with the preliminary steps of basting the two parts together by ha-nd.

Binding is done by adjusting the binder in the place of the double tongue, and coniining-it there by the thumb-screw j' and set-screwf", Figs. 7 and S. By means of the slots g g and f j", in the three several pieces of the binder, it may be adjusted, if desirable, to throw more or less of the binding over either side of the cloth bound. The cloth and binding are then run through together in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 12, past the needle 17, stitching both edges of the binding firmly to the cloth at once passing through, and this without previous basting.

To hem, I have only t0 take out the thumbscrew f and remove the double tongue B C C', and place the hemmer H, Fig. 14, in its stead; replace the thumb -screw f and run the cloth through, thus turning the hem and sewing down at the same time.

To make a cord-welt and put it in at the same time, put the eerder m. between the double tongue C C', fastening it with the thumb-screw f. Thread the cord through the cylinder hf, passing it back through the eye ofthe coi-der. The cord h should pass just outside of the needle i when drawn straight past it. The cloth to cover the cord-welt should be folded and put between the double tongue, sliding it in from the end and passing it in, one part above and the other below the projectin g end of the cylinder h and eye ofthe corder, with the cord between where the needle works. The goods should be placed the same as to baste or gather. In gathering, the welt should be above the pressure-plate.

The corder w being only a diii'erent form for the same thing, it is to be placed in the same position, threaded in the same manner, either through the holes c c', e e, or c e, and treated in every respect, as far as may be, the saine as the eerder m.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

1. The rufiiing -plate E, constructed as de scribed, hinged to the bed-plate A having a guiding-edge, and arranged and operating' as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The eerder w, having one or more cordehannels e c', c c, or c 6', in combination with the double tongue G C', for the purposes set forth and described.

3. The combination of the spring-fingers B D, intermediate tongue and cording device, with the bedplate A, provided with the guide H.

In testimony that' I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of June, 1870.

MILTON J. PALMER.

Witnesses:

G. L.- Evnnrs, A. N. MARR. 

